The Retrograde Has Begun

Alabama has convinced Chief Justice Roberts and his ilk that the application of Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act is no longer constitutionally rational as currently applied. The Court implies that the application is over broad. The truth is that it is too narrow, but that's not the view which will prevail once Congress ever decides to take up this matter.

Progress and regress, so goes the path toward social justice. Thaddeus Stevens, or his ghost, is sorely needed for modern path finding. Meanwhile, how long will it take for the current Section 4, to be needed again and to become rational again? How long? Not long, not if things are now in retrograde, not if Alabama and the other Section 4 States are loosed of the tether of imposed, neutral oversight.

Joe Bush

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The Retrograde Has Begun

Alabama has convinced Chief Justice Roberts and his ilk that the application of Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act is no longer constitutionally rational as currently applied. The Court implies that